Collins v. Sanitary District
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall county; the Hon. John M. Niehaus, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Farmer
This is an action for damages brought by plaintiff below, appellee here, against the Sanitary District of Chicago, appellant, for overflowing and submerging land alleged by appellee to be owned by her. Appellee recovered a judgment for $17,729.14, and the defendant below has appealed direct to this court as a freehold is involved under the pleadings in the case.
The suit was begun January 12, 1905. The original declaration consisted of three counts. The first count alleged that on, to-wit, the first day of January, 1904, the plaintiff was the owner and possessed of the land described, and that…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- North Chicago Street Railway Co. v. CottonIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
- Fifer v. AllenIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
- Scott v. Parlin & Orendorff Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1910
- Smith v. Sanitary DistrictIllinois Supreme Court · 1913
- Deel v. HeiligensteinIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
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